Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:14:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?) In-Reply-To: <20030925125239.GH10088@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <006601c38335$a62e8dc0$8006fea9 AT bertigep> <20030925125239 DOT GH10088 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:34:25AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote: > > > > > > $ perl -e 'print "all:;\t\@true && \\\n"; foreach $i > > > > (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print > > > > "\ttrue\n";' | make -f - > > > > make: *** [all] Error 255 > > > > > > Yes, that fails from 1990. > > > > > > Is that a good bug report? Where should it be posted? > > > > Try it on Linux. If it works there, post it to the Cygwin list (i.e., > > here) with words to that effect. If it doesn't work on Linux either, post > > it to some general make bugs list -- I'm sure there is one; look at the > > homepage for GNU make. > > "make bug"? I'm getting this on Linux: > > make: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long > make: *** [all] Error 127 > > Doesn't look like a bug at all to me. > > Corinna Urp. What I meant was "if it fails in the same way on Linux". The above looks like a legitimate error message. FWIW, I just tried it on a RedHat 7.3 machine, and I'm getting the same error as Corinna. Now that you mention it, it could be that Cygwin's /bin/sh is exiting with status 255 on an overlong argument list, and this has nothing to do with make per se... Although all of for sh in /bin/sh /bin/ksh /bin/bash /bin/tcsh; do perl -e 'print "all:;\t\@true && echo \$\$SHELL && \\\n"; foreach $i (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print "\techo && true\n";' | make -f - SHELL=$sh done printed "make: *** [all] Error 255", so I doubt it's a specific shell's behavior... This is obviously Cygwin-specific, though. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/